rainwater

Converse of object

• collect: Don't connect waste pipes to drains which collect rainwater from your roof or paths.
• recycle: Water butts are used to recycle rainwater for the garden.
• prefer: People prefer rainwater to other water due to its taste.
• store: Moreover, households with stored rainwater were found to utilize a range of water use strategies which varied over time.
• capture: The empty planter has a reservoir to capture rainwater in the base, gel crystals are added along with the compost.
• catch: The circular ditch would have caught rainwater running off the thatched roof.

Adjective modifier

• collect: Collect rainwater in a water butt to water the garden, rather than using clean tap water.

Modifies a noun

• harvesting: A rainwater harvesting system to provide toilet flushing for a 3 or 4 bedroom house is likely to cost at least £ 2,000.
• run-off: The improvements will help to reduce rainwater run-off from the road, which often causes nearby houses to flood.
• downpipe: Everyone should be collecting rainwater in a water butt, fixed to every rainwater downpipe attached to your property.
• catchment: Contact details of all members The members of IRCSA form a large body of knowledge on rainwater catchment in all its forms.
• gutter: With the single 100mm internal diameter rainwater drain pipe a 150mm internal diameter rainwater gutter would be needed.
• butt: A locked gate at the front leads to a passage by the side of the house where there are two rainwater butts.

Noun used with modifier

• harvesting: The reviews said... Cut your bills by harvesting rainwater.
• harvest: The garden also harvests rainwater, which is used for flushing the building's toilets.
• iron: Cast iron rainwater goods were normally painted black, or a dark color.
• cast: Cast iron rainwater goods were normally painted black, or a dark color.

Preposition: in

• butt: Save rainwater in garden butts to water your plants.

Preposition: from

• roof: A cleaner source is to use rainwater from the roofs of buildings.

Preposition: for

• garden: Water butts are used to recycle rainwater for the garden.